Enter a clue or pattern or both:

The Clue

Inspiring intense fear (6 letter answer)

The Answer

GRISLY

Tags


Notes

The answer GRISLY is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2400 puzzles.

Related Clues

Forbidding
Frightful
Gruesome
Horrible
Like a horror story

Definition

GRISLY as an adjective:

1. (ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick) = shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"